Did you see “Cold Case” tonight? Holy shit, that was some good TV. I usually watch the show, and it’s always all right, but I was transfixed tonight. I felt like a dork, sucked in by the show, but this one was great. Plus they played one of my favorite songs, “Hallelujah,” at the end (not sure who the singer was. Not my beloved Jeff Buckley.)
Okay, so both Some Girl and Gidget tagged me …
Six Things About Me That Are Weird
1. I cried like a baby each time “NYPD Blue” lost one of its male leads. David Caruso was the worst, followed by Ricky Schroeder and Jimmy Smits. Sharon Lawrence gets an honorable mention; the phrase “take care of the baby” still makes me tear up.
2. I have never smoked anything. Ever. I can’t even operate a lighter.
3. I teach my pets to answer to alternate names, even my cats. Mr.Man answers to Joe, too. Reggie answers to Doodle, Bug or Bug-Bug. My dog, Oliver, who lives with his dad, also answered to Poochie and Poochielicious.
4. I am terrified of grasshoppers.
5. I sleep with a fan on to keep the room cool, but then I turn on my heated mattress pad because I’m cold.
6. I have never watched “The Lion King.” Can’t bring myself to do it. No good reason, it just seems to irritate me.
Okay, Watchdog, Carmen and Izzy, you’ve been tagged!
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Three people tagged me within hours of each other.
Answers on my blog, but here also
1. I am addicted to romance. The idea of romance. Romance novels (not the trashy kind, I like to have a little story with my nookie.) I am a hopeful romantic.
2. I secretly enjoy taking my car through the car wash. Something about the rainbow soap and not being able to see out of my windows and the sounds.
3. I love to travel, but loathe flying. Actually, it’s more the thought of crashing I don’t like.
4. I am afraid I’m turning into a big geek with the blogging thing. I don’t want to end up an old maid with 30 cats because I spent all my time on the computer.
5. I wish I could be rich. Not so I’d have money to spend, but so I could pursue the careers I want to pursue without having to worry that they pay little to nothing. Photography. Interior Design. Full-time writer. Alas, my mortgage calls.
6, I am a completely different person in my car. I talk to people in other cars (mostly yell at them.) I sing with the radio (at the top of my lungs).
Comment by Carmen - April 17, 2006 8:24 am
The Top 6 Weird Things About Me:
1) I frequently go to Dunkin Donuts in the morning on my way to work. I always order a large French Vanilla ice coffee light with cream and four splenda. Not so weird right? Until I tell you I order that same thing 365 days a year no matter how cold it is outside. I do not drink hot coffee.
2) Before discovering the joys of ice coffee I would wake up and drink a Coca-Cola Classic. Coke is my defacto soda of choice. In fact, I would not go into a Burger King for years because all they served was Pepsi. In my old age I have lightened up a bit and now there are only three other sodas I drink, Jolt Cola, Mr. Pibbs (ONLY Mr. Pibbs or Pibbs Xtra not Dr. Pepper), and Mountain Dew Code Red. Go figure.
3) I have a journal fetish. I am constantly finding and buying new blank journals which end up never being used. I always buy them with the clear intention of using them… just never get around to it. My favorite journal is one I got from Australia and paid over one hundred dollars for. Why? Because it is as close to an exact replica I could get from Ryan Phillipe’s journal in Cruel Intentions. Nothing like the soft feel of paper from down under…
4) I began working when I was 12 years old at my local R.C. Church. I worked there for ten years, quitting at the ripe old age of 22, and have only gone back on two occasions. I would easily spend 12 hours a weekend there and every now and then a day during the week too. I worked in both the office of the Rectory as well as in the Sacristy of the Church which I was very capable of doing because I was an altar boy since I was 10 years old (I stopped doing that when I became a Eucharistic Minister at 21). By my calculations I went to 3 masses a weekend for 10 years so because I stopped going at 22, I technically should not have to go to mass again until I’m 42. So I still have 11 years to go before I will be damned to hell for not going to church ontop of everything else I’ve done. I look forward to that day and will probably have a party. Wanna come?
5) Red and black are my favorite colors. Big surprise there right? Well… here’s where it gets weird. I love the smell of vanilla. So when I order candles I get red and black scented with vanilla. I really didn’t think it was weird ’til someone mentioned their husband thought I was a goth. My mentality is probably very gothlike but I’m not into the whole make-up thing.
6) The final weird thing about me, well that I would consider weird, is that I can’t go to sleep in silence. After so many years sleeping with background noise if there is nothing on in the background I can’t sleep. Usually I’ll leave the television on now… but it has to be the History Channel or the Travel Channel. I want to become as educated as I can while I sleep.
Do you feel better now???
Comment by New York City's Watchdog - April 17, 2006 4:31 pm
I could of made it less embarrassing…but than it wouldn’t of been any fun…lol.
1. I cannot eat macaroni and cheese without Heinz ketchup…which is why I will never order it in a restaurant or eat it in front of anyone who is not a blood relative.
2. I cannot sleep if the sheets/blankets are tucked under the mattress…and that is the real reason why I can never look a hotel maid in the eye the next morning.
3. I still own all five New Kids on the Block Ken dolls…along with my NKOTB calendar, trading cards and framed concert tickets.
I saw that concert with Jackie, who nearly ripped my arm from it’s socket when Jordan Knight came onto the stage…if I go down, she goes down with me.
4. I actually have a packed ‘back seat’ purse in my lingerie draw…KY massaging liquid, Purell, vanilla flavored lip gloss, Wrigley’s spearmint gum, condoms, paper towels and a cigarette.
5. I had (have) sort of a crush on Bad Willow (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)…when I met Alison Hanigan for the first time, I turned three different shades of pink and giggled so much I got the hiccups.
6. On first dates, I get so nervous that my hands tend to fidget uncontrollably…if I’m lucky I will spend the whole evening playing with a straw wrapper or shred my napkin.
Of course there are those times when I’m not…I have drenched a date in Amaretto, nearly taken my eye out with a fork, shot a knife across the table nearly stabbing a date in the chest, knocked over a candle setting a placemat ablaze and have lost control of a clam shell sending it splashing into a dates pint.
Comment by Izzy - April 17, 2006 10:36 pm
Carmen–Mrs. Fab is the same way in a car wash. She is absolutely enchanted by the rainbow soap. She’ll just sit there with a big serene smile on her face.
I better get her some help.
Comment by Mr. Fabulous - April 19, 2006 5:15 am